{"id":8942,"date":"2014-02-20T13:55:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2014-02-20T13:58:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T18:58:51","slug":"how-the-olympic-medal-count-system-were-using-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/02\/20\/how-the-olympic-medal-count-system-were-using-is-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Olympic medal count system we&#8217;re using is broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8944\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/02\/Medals.gif\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8944\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-8944 \" alt=\"Image: Jonathan Sklaroff\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/files\/2014\/02\/Medals.gif\" width=\"403\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Jonathan Sklaroff<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fun Sochi fact: The system most media outlets (including NPR) are using is broken. Here&#8217;s how we can fix it:<\/p>\n<p>Going into today, Norway leads all nations with double digit Gold Medals with 10, but according to most media outlets\u00a0 they rank 4<sup>th<\/sup> because they have 21 medals. Meanwhile, the U.S. stands on top with 23 Medals! One problem with this, the U.S. has only 7 Gold, but 11 Bronze!<\/p>\n<p>The more accurate description instead of the U.S. is number 1 should be that we are the best at being third. I propose a weighted points system (see graphic): 12 points for gold, 6 for silver and 2 for bronze. By that math, Russia has 140 points, the U.S. 136 points, Canada has 122 and the Norwegian\u2019s lead all with 158.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun Sochi fact: The system most media outlets (including NPR) are using is broken. Here&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14013,14012,14010,14011,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8948,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}